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NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release
April 15, 1999
THE CRISIS: Galloping costs, lack of access in postsecondary education
THE SOLUTION: Technology?
Senior postsecondary administrators and policy makers from across Ontario will join Sir John Daniel at an exclusive on-line Executive Roundtable hosted by Contact North/Contact Nord’s Centre for Innovation in Learning on Friday, April 16, 1999 in Sudbury at Contact North/Contact Nord’s Regional Coordinating Centre.
Recent findings indicate that enrolment at Ontario universities could increase as much as 40 percent in the next 10 years, creating what some are calling a crisis in access. Sir John Daniel will explore with participants the overarching issue of balancing access, cost and flexibility in the face of this crisis, and how technology can be employed towards a solution.
Sir John Daniel is Vice-Chancellor of the Open University in the United Kingdom, responsible for 200,000 students of whom 50,000 study on-line. He is also the President of the United States Open University and is regarded as a leading expert on technology in learning, distance and open learning.
Says Maxim Jean-Louis, President and CEO of Contact North/Contact Nord, "A critical part of our mandate is to facilitate the innovative application of technology in education and training. There is no question that this is going to be a big component in the effort to resolve the expanding access crisis."
He adds, "We all need to find creative and collaborative solutions to this acute access problem."
Contact North/Contact Nord, headquartered in Sudbury and Thunder Bay, operates as a non-profit corporation in partnership with several public and private sector organizations. The most recent Contact North/Contact Nord initiatives include
the recent launch of first-of-a-kind Learning & Training Technology Labs in Sudbury and Thunder Bay
successful completion of a Wired for Learning: Technologies Working in the Classroom pilot project aimed at training teachers on how to use the Internet to enhance classroom learning
expansion of its Centre for Innovation in Learning and its Centre of Distance Education for Secondary Schools.
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